🎨 How to customize your error messages

📚 Customize any validation message to make it more friendly.

Do you want to change the validation error message (when people did something wrong on your form)? Does it sound too rude to you? Let’s make it a little bit better! This article will show you how to customize any validation message and make it friendlier.

  • Granular Customization: Select the field, the validation type and enter the customized message.
  • Improve your Conversion Rate: Define messages that focus on your target with a touch of familiarity.
  • Every Field including reCAPTCHA: You can set a custom message for every field including the reCAPTCHA widget.
  • Every Validation Type: Customize the warning of one, two or all of your validation types.

Create a Custom Error Messages

To create a custom error message, you must perform the following steps:

  1. Go to the Add-ons Manager and click on Custom Error Messages.
  2. Click on the Set Up a Form button.
  3. A form used to configure the validation will appear.
    • Form: Select the form to validate.
    • Status: Can be:
      • On: Enable customization
      • Off: Disable customization
    • Items: It’s composed of:
      • Field: Choose the field to be validated.
      • Validation Type: Choose the type, for example: “Required” or “Unique”.
      • Error Message: The custom error message if the value entered by the user doesn’t pass the validation type.
  4. Click Create

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